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Show ,1 . - - .TRUTHS. Carl Badger, formerly private scc- retary to Senator Smoot, lias entered the law firm of Booth & Lee, which henceforth will be known as Booth, I Lee & Badger. Mr. Badger has stud- ;' icd law in the east concluding his i courses at the University, of Wasli- j ington, D. C, where he greatly dis tinguished himself. He has ability i far beyond the .oidinary, which coupled with industry and high character char-acter cannot fail to result in a bril- jJL liant career. , The election of Dr. Pkuniuer as colonel in the National Guard will, if all signs, fail not, prove a great factor in putting: the guard on its feet. Dr. : I'lummer is exceedingly well up in ' army tactics, knows how to handle men and is a courteous uul affable' gentleman'. His election is the best move the guard has made for a long time. By the time the Thaws have paid the associated prcs:, the venal newspapers news-papers and the venal special correspondents corres-pondents for their efforts in the creation of public sentiment in, favor of the dispicablc scion of the ignoble house of Tliaw, they wiil not have as many millions' of dollars dol-lars in their glorious diadem as they had before Harry K. Thaw murdered Stanford White. , ' The legislature at this time is supposed sup-posed to be dead, legally it is dead, but by the exercise of a little fiction it is alive and kicking. It hasn't done very much during its life of 60 days and in the main th.il is w'cll. There arc some measures, however, which were brought to its notice which it would have been well If it had enacted enact-ed into law. Among those arc what -. is known as the Galveston bill, changing the system of municipal government from that now in vogue by mayors and city councils to a commission, com-mission, composed, of thr,ee members. While the plan has worked satisfactorily satisfac-torily in Galveston and a few other cities, it is still in an experimental stage, but in Salt Lake the old mcth-1 mcth-1 od has proved a failure and it would be good to try something else. One can scarcely imagine any plan which ft, $ would be 'productive, of worse results than have attended the present system. sys-tem. The natural conclusion therc- 1 fore is that any1 change would be for ' ' 1 1 the better and that the 16gislatUrc vwould have been justified in trying the experiment, 1 The present city administration has w sounded" nt1' lowest depths of depravity," de-pravity," extravagance, incompetency and corruption. We have-had bad administrations in the past, but none like this one in the extent of its badness. bad-ness. Its field of operation extends from petty larceny grafts by members mem-bers of the city council to the limit of the financial ability of the city lb lespond. Any change would be for the better, therefore, why not try the Galveston plan? Another measure which the legislature legis-lature should not have killed was that lo create a state insurance department. de-partment. This was a bill of decided merit because such a law as' it provided pro-vided for would have been of great benefit to the people of the state. It was killed on account of petty jealousies jeal-ousies between members of the senate. sen-ate. We can't tell just now what will be the fate of the idea for 'the creation crea-tion of a police and fire. board to control t,iic police and fire departments depart-ments of cities of the first and sec-.ond sec-.ond class. .Probably the best thing the' legislature can do Would be lo kill the thing. " ' " -. . . '.M.I, How the Tribune and the Telegram do squeal because, Chief of Police Sheets has been held to the district court for trial! By clever word innuendoes in-nuendoes they convey the idea that Judge Whittakcr was corrupt in his judgment or at least influenced by po-. litical considerations. A fouler ni-simiatipu ni-simiatipu was never before uttered The fact is the Tribune and the Tele- t gram artf the orgWs"b"f tlldllUgS'Sna " thieves and they for. themselves, and on behalf .of those they represent at-tr.ck at-tr.ck anybody and anything that dobs not belong in their class and wont train with them Judge Whitakcr's ruling was eminently proper and meets with the approval of the decent law abiding clement 6f the community. commun-ity. The others repiescntcd by the Tiibunc and Telegram of course arc not satisfied. It could not 'be expected ex-pected they would be. ... 1 |